Category: This Month in Coal

By Gavin du Venage, South African Editor Some of the largest mining operations around South Africa have ground to a halt as the country once again undergoes rolling electricity blackouts. In late November, the country’s...

All the coal deposits of Poland’s Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa (JSW) have been mapped and stored in virtual 3D space. The company recently completed the project aimed at implementing a modern deposit management and production...

Arch Coal has discontinued longwall operations at its Mountain Laurel mine in Logan County, West Virginia, three months earlier than planned. The move is expected to reduce Arch’s fourth-quarter coking coal volumes by between...

Colombia’s El Cerrejón owned by BHP, Glencore and Anglo American will switch focus from Europe to Asia, in a move that would put it head to head with Australian coal exporters. El Cerrejón President Guillermo Fonseca urged the...

Australia Pacific Coal Ltd. said it will appeal a state regulator’s decision to not extend the life of an idled coal mine, as reported by Reuters. Australian Pacific, in its appeal, hopes to have the decision amended to extend...

The Navajo Transitional Energy Co. (NTEC) said it continues to maintain the operations it purchased from Cloud Peak Energy (CPE) and expects to secure all necessary bonds to continue operations without any delays. The...

On October 29, Murray Energy and some of its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio. According to its parent company, Murray Energy Holdings Co., it entered into a...

Africa Coal Partners, a separate entity set up and managed by Duet Group, announced its acquisition of a 45.18% stake in Mbuyelo Coal Pty. Ltd. from Ichor Coal N.V. The agreed purchase price was set at 95 million euros ($106...

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Navajo Transitional Energy Co. (NTEC) reached a short-term agreement that will allow coal production at the Spring Creek mine to resume. The interim agreement will keep...

American Resources Corp. has been named the primary bidder for certain assets offered for sale through the bankruptcy proceedings of Cambrian Holding Co. Inc. Under the proposal, American Resources would acquire all assets and...

The Byerwen coal mine in Queensland, Australia, owned by QCoal Pty. Ltd. (85%) and JFE Steel (15%) held an opening ceremony, attended by government representatives and customers, to mark the commencement of hard coking coal...

Botswana-based Minergy Ltd., which owns the 390-million-metric-ton (mt) Masama Coal Project in the Mmambula Coalfield, provided an update on the status of the project, reporting that is has moved more than 2.2 million m3 of...